Russian agricultural sector to receive 40 billion rubles annually until 2020
Mr. Fedorov reminded that 487 billion rubles of the federal budget were allocated to implement the previous Government Program of the agriculture development 2008-2012, while 1.51 trillion rubles are to be allocated for the new Program 2013-2020.
“As we have added 42 billion rubles this year, we are going to add at least about 40 billion rubles within each of the next 8 years from 2013 till 2020” – said the Minister of Agriculture . Thus, the industry will receive about extra 320 billion rubles within 8 years. Mr. Fedorov pointed out, that such an agreement was already reached with the country's leadership. It turns out, that instead of 97 billion rubles annually in the past 5 years - at least 200 billion rubles of the federal budget were allocated for the agricultural development in the coming years, - Minister counted.